Buckle.



No. 893,336. PATENTED JULY 14. 1908.

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APILIOATION PILE D MAR. 11, 1908.

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BUCKLE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented July 14, 1908.

Application filed March 11, 1908. Serial No. 420,477.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RUBEN LONDON, a citizen ofthe United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Buckle, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

- The invention relates to buckles for use on knee pants and other garments and other articles, as shown and described in the application for Letters Patent, No. 404,494, filed by me on November 30, 1907.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved buckle arranged to allow ready insertion of the strap, to render the retaining teeth for the strap on the buckle invisible, and to allow convenient fastening of the buckle to the garment or article.

The invention consistseof novel features and parts and combinations of the same, which will be more fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in

garment F, and the teeth C entering the buckle strap retain thelatter and prevent the same from slipping out of the buckle. The free end of the buckle strap G is now passed over the middle cross bar A and then under the end cross bar A in the usual manner and as indicated in Fig. 2. a

By having the teeth C on the swing loop C instead on the open frame A, as shown and described in the application above referred to, the teeth are rendered invisible when the buckle is used, and a strain exerted by the buckle strap G on the buckle tends to draw the strap G firmer in engagement with the teeth 0 (see Fig. 2), and hence the buckle strap is not liable to become loose;

By having the swing loop 0 hinged at one end to the garment and at the other end to the frame A, both the loop and frame can be readily swung into an open position for the convenient insertion of the buckle strap in the buckle, as above described, or for removing the strap from the buckle whenever it is desired to do so.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A buckle, comprising an open frame for the passage of the buckle strap, a loop pivoted to one end of the said frame and having retaining means for the buckle strap, and a bearing for the loop to swing in and adapted to be attached to the article on which the buckle is to be used.

2. A buckle, comprising an open frame for the passage of the strap, and a loop pivoted to one end of the said open frame, and having means for retaining the buckle strap, and means for pivotally connecting the loop with the article on which the buckle is to be used.

3. A buckle, comprising an open frame for the passage of the strap, and a loop pivoted to one end of the said open frame and having the end bar provided at the inner edge with teeth for engagement with the buckle strap, and means for ivotally connecting the other end bar of the oop with the article on which the buckle is to be used.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

RUBEN LONDON.

cate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improvement in an open position and as applied to knee pants; Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional plan view of the same; and Fig. 3 is a rear face view of the improvement.

The open frame A of the buckle is provided at the under side of its end bar A with bearings B for the end C of a loop 0 to swing in, the other end C of the said loop C engaging a bearing D, preferably made of cloth and fastened by stitches E or other' fastening means to the leg'of the knee pants, or other garment or article F on which the buckle is used. Along the inner edge of the end O of the swing loop C are formed teeth C for engagement with the buckle strap G, as hereinafter more fully described.

By the arrangement shown and above set forth, the swing loop C can be swung outward into an open position, as shown in Fig. 1, to allow of conveniently passing the buckle stra G through the swing loop 0, to engage standing clear of the garment F, as shown in- Fig. 1. The operator now, on pulling the free end of the buckle strap G, causes the swing loop C to swing rearward against the Witnessesz' Tnno. G. Hosrnn, EVERARD B. MARSHALL. 

